QLCI-CI: NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation

• funded by: NSF (award abstract) via subcontract from UMD
• funding level: $1,125,000
• duration: 09/01/2021 - 08/31/2026

The Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation focuses on using quantum simulation to gain insight into --- and thereby exploit --- the rich behavior of complex quantum systems. Combining expertise from researchers in computer science, engineering, and physics, our team address the challenge of robustly simulating classically intractable quantum systems of practical interest, and verifying the correctness of the simulation result.

• DISQ: Dynamic Iteration Skipping for Variational Quantum Algorithms by Junyao Zhang, Hanrui Wang, Gokul Subramanian Ravi, Fred Chong, Song Han, Frank Mueller, Yiran Chen in IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Oct 2023
• QisDAX: An Open Source Bridge from Qiskit to Ion Trap Quantum Devices by Kaustubh Badrike, Aniket S. Dalvi, Filip Mazurek, Marissa D'Onofrio, Jacob Whitlow, Tianyi Chen, Samuel Phiri, Leon Riesebos, Kenneth R. Brown, Frank Mueller in IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Oct 2023. Software artifact QisDAX
• Combining Hard and Soft Constraints in Quantum Constraint-Satisfaction Systems by Ellis Wilson, Frank Mueller, Scott Pakin in Supercomputing (SC), Nov 2022, pages (accepted). Software artifact github and NchooseK main repo
• Quantum Annealing Stencils with Applications to Fuel Loading of a Nuclear Reactor by Joseph Fustero, Scott Palmtag, Frank Mueller in IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Oct 2021
• Mapping Constraint Problems onto Quantum Gate and Annealing Devices by Ellis Wilson, Frank Mueller, Scott Pakin in International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software, Nov 2021.
• "Empirical Evaluation of Circuit Approximations on Noisy Quantum Devices" by Ellis Wilson, Frank Mueller, Lindsay Bassman, Constin Iancu, in Supercomputing (SC), Nov 2021, pages, Preprint arXiv:2107.06701
• Quantum Physics Inspired Methods for Two-Batch PWR Loading Pattern Optimization by Joseph Fustero, Frank Mueller, David Kropaczek, Colleen Farrelly in American Nuclear Society, Annual Meeting (ANS-AM), Jun 2022
• Combining Hard and Soft Constraints in Quantum Constraint-Satisfaction Systems by Ellis Wilson, Frank Mueller, Scott Pakin in Supercomputing (SC), Nov 2022, pages (accepted). Software artifact github and NchooseK main repo

• TBA

• Quantum Tutorial
• Quantum Computing Graduate Classes

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